Grammar & Punctuation – active voice.
TRANSITIVE VERBS (verbs that take an object) can be used in two ways, or ‘voices’: active and passive: ACTIVE: The dog bit him. PASSIVE: He was bitten by the dog.…
Grammar & Punctuation – acronym.
An ABBREVIATION composed of the first letters of other words so that the abbreviation itself forms a word. For example: CRASH: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and…
Grammar & punctuation – abstract noun.
Noun can be divided into two groups: concrete and abstract. Concrete nouns refer to people, places, and things that can be experienced using our five senses. Abstract nouns refer to…
Grammar & Punctuation – abbreviations.
The presentation of abbreviations in writing raises two questions:  Should I use full stops?  Do I use capital or small letters? Full stops  Normally if you use…
Grammar & Punctuation – Complex Sentences.
There is a limit to the meaning you can express with the conjunction and. If someone says She has not been very successful and she is looking for another career,…
Grammar & Punctuation – Compound Sentences.
Multiple sentences are made by combining clauses. The simplest way of doing this is to use the grammatical equivalent of a plus sign: She has not been very successful +…
Grammar & Punctuation – Simple and multiple sentences.
If a sentence consists of one clause it is described as a simple sentence. Each of the following is a simple sentence: Mary writes books. She has not been very…
Grammar & Punctuation – Optional adverbials.
More often an adverbial is not essential to the grammar of the clause it is in. In each case of the sentences that follow the adverbial is in bold type.…